Maybe my memory is faulty (yeah, right. “maybe”) but I thought Rick Perry’s Government-Sanctioned Pray-to-Jesus-For Rain Rally failed to produce any rain. If I’m right, then how could it have ended the drought?

I think maybe it’s time to admit the obvious: Amurkkka is on the edge — the knife edge — of becoming a failed experiment. Seems to be parcel to the human condition to fail, especially when the nutcases approach or exceed majority. A quick look at the Congress and the GOP clown car is close to enough to complete the equation. Over and out, as they say. Glad I’m an old fart.

Joining the ranks of stuffed bears honoring presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama, a Bernie Sanders bear was released last week by the Vermont Teddy Bear company, in an announcement they called a “campaign” that went out on the same day the Vermont senator declared his run for POTUS.

As of Sunday, “several hundred” orders had been placed for the Bernie Sanders bear, according Jason Baer, vice president of sales and marketing for Vermont Teddy Bear.

“We will probably wait until the actual party nominees to make the other candidates,” said Baer. “We could not resist jumping in earlier with Bernie, as it’s not very often a candidate from Vermont runs!”

In the Grand Duchy of Brownbackistan: “As it stands, HB 2109, the bill meant to fix the budget, would actually increase the deficit, because senators have approved amendments for tax decreases but not for increases.”

Apparently the Brownbackistan Motto is: “When you are in a hole, dig UP, stupid.”

Sigh… Another glaring case of fundies who believe they are above the law. And, the smart money is backing the assumption that nothing will change and no one will be reprimanded much less fired and forever banned from working at a public school.

I wish that I could agree with The Cruzer on one point. I wish that our government was, indeed, grabbing guns from those who should never be allowed to posses them. Alas. The last time I tired to find a single person who had their guns “grabbed” just for the heck of it I came up with a big zilch.

Cruz says, “Our right to keep and bear arms is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against government tyranny.”

Wrong on every count. The second amendment was written to mollify slave owners, to guarantee that the state militia could still be used to put down slave rebellions, to protect slavery in spite of the assignment of state militias to federal gov’t authority by the 1787 Constitution.

I would even settle for the slightly less despicable reasons like defending ourselves from the British and all those Native Americans who objected to us taking their, well, everything. I’m pretty sure that any one of the Founding Fathers would happily thrash any teabagger who suggested that the 2nd Amendment was crafted to protect the citizens from the government they had just established.

“If the country be invaded, a state may go to war, but cannot suppress insurrections. If there should happen an insurrection of slaves, the country cannot be said to be invaded. They cannot, therefore, suppress it without the interposition of Congress . . . . Congress, and Congress only, can call forth the militia.”

and

“In this situation, I see a great deal of the property of the people of Virginia in jeopardy, and their peace and tranquility gone.”